Eddie and Rubye’s Snack bar was founded in 1981 by Eddie Joe Bennet, named for he and his wife Rubye, and run by he and his daughter until his passing in January, 2000. Pat, who was graduating from high school in 1981, says she didn’t want to come work for her daddy at first. She went to school “for computers”, she says, and had no intention of working in a fish house. But she needed a job, and here was one waiting for her, so she took up the challenge and never looked back.